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To whom it may concern,<BR>
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I am really interested in discourse studies and linguistics. I am currently a law student ad Southwestern University of Law, yet miss the discourse field. I live in LA, CA and wonder if you know of any lectures on the subject out here?<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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Carrie Karney<BR><BR>> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:24:50 +0100<BR>> From: paul@HUM.AAU.DK<BR>> Subject: DeXusChange 2009: summer school on discourse and social justice<BR>> To: DISCOURS@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<BR>> <BR>> Sorry for cross-posting.<BR>> Please circulate this information to interested parties.<BR>> <BR>> ---------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> *** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ***<BR>> <BR>> DeXusChange 2009: Shaping Discourse to Come!<BR>> <BR>> An Alternative, International Summer School<BR>> on Discourse and Social Justice<BR>> <BR>> Invited guests:<BR>> <BR>> Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal<BR>> Lawrence Frey, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA<BR>> Shi-xu, Zhejiang University, China<BR>> Thomas Tufte, Roskilde University, Denmark<BR>> TBA<BR>> <BR>> Dates:<BR>> 17th - 22nd August, 2009<BR>> <BR>> Location:<BR>> Centre for Discourse Studies<BR>> Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark<BR>> <BR>> Web site:<BR>> http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009<BR>> <BR>> The recent emergence of a set of interlocking global crises -- including<BR>> climate, energy, food, water, finance -- demands a renewed<BR>> interdisciplinary effort to understand how to mediate the future, the past<BR>> and the present in ways that attend to equity, justice and rights. The aim<BR>> of this summer school is to bring together people investigating and<BR>> promoting social change and transformation with an explicit focus on the<BR>> role of discourse in shaping a just future (and the past). Discourse is<BR>> understood as encompassing an interdisciplinary perspective on text, talk,<BR>> discourse, genre, narrative, archive, document, image and rhetoric in all<BR>> their modal, social and cultural forms, not only in terms of<BR>> representation but also action and practice.<BR>> <BR>> Themes within the interdisciplinary focus of the summer school will<BR>> include the following clusters:<BR>> <BR>> * Discourse/Style/Genre/Semiotics/Rhetorics<BR>> * Mediation/Modality/Action/Practice<BR>> * History/Narrative/Memory/Experience<BR>> * Change/Intervention/Critique/Social Justice<BR>> * Rights/Ethics/Care/Hope<BR>> * Suffering/Risk<BR>> * Identity/Gender/'Race'/Ethnicity/Kinship<BR>> * Belonging/Citizenship/Linking/Relationality<BR>> * Nature/Environment/Habitus/Context<BR>> * Interaction/Technology/Artefact<BR>> * Structure/Ordering/Organisation/Governance<BR>> * Space/Movement/Mobility/Flow/Scale<BR>> <BR>> DeXusChange will interest students and scholars who work in the diverse<BR>> fields of discourse studies, communication studies, development studies,<BR>> globalisation studies, media studies, political science, sociology,<BR>> history, anthropology, international studies, social movement studies,<BR>> communication activism, participatory communication, critical journalism<BR>> studies, action research, and human-centred communication and informatics.<BR>> <BR>> DeXusChange 2009 draws upon the innovative pedagogical tradition at<BR>> Aalborg University to experiment with a problem-based, project-centred<BR>> research summer school for doctoral students and scholars who are engaged<BR>> in interdisciplinary studies. Following on from the successful "DeXus:<BR>> Discourse Nexus" summer school series 2003-2006, the core concept in<BR>> DeXusChange is the free play of ideas within the thematic context of<BR>> group-derived problems and reflexive project work developed during the six<BR>> fruitful days of the summer school.<BR>> <BR>> Following the first two days of lectures and workshops by the invited<BR>> guests, which will establish a common ground work, we concentrate over the<BR>> following days on group project work. On the last day, all groups will<BR>> come together to report on their findings, solutions and applications,<BR>> with commentary and discussion from the guests and wayfinders. A poster<BR>> session will take place during the first day for those who wish to present<BR>> their research publicly. More details on the DeXusChange web site:<BR>> http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009.<BR>> <BR>> The summer school is international and open to researchers, doctoral and<BR>> graduate students. Please apply online at<BR>> http://diskurs.hum.aau.dk/dxc2009<BR>> <BR>> For more academic information, contact the organisers:<BR>> DeXusChange Collective - dxc2009 (at) hum (dot) aau (dot) dk<BR>> <BR>> The deadline for applying is 29th May 2009. The participation fee payment<BR>> deadline is 15th June 2009.<BR>> <BR>> The participation fee is 3500 Danish kroner (approx. 450 Euros), which<BR>> covers administrative costs, tea/coffee and lunches every working day, one<BR>> evening drinks reception (Monday) and one evening dinner (Thursday). More<BR>> information on the web site. If you are enrolled as a doctoral student at<BR>> a Danish University, then please see the web site for specific<BR>> instructions. One free scholarship will be given to a qualified student<BR>> from the Global South. Please see the website for more information about<BR>> how to apply.<BR>> <BR>> Warm regards, DeXusChange Collective<BR>> Ben Dorfman<BR>> Oscar Garcia<BR>> Inger Lassen<BR>> Paul McIlvenny<BR>> Pirkko Raudaskoski<BR>> <BR>> The DeXusChange summer school is supported by the Centre for Discourse<BR>> Studies, the Doctoral Programme in Discourse and Contemporary Culture, the<BR>> Human-Centred Communication and Informatics Doctoral Programme, and the<BR>> Department of Language and Culture at Aalborg University.<BR>> <BR>> -----------------------------------------<BR><BR><br /><hr />Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. <a href='http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_022009' target='_new'>See how it works.</a></body>
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